Sunrise Beach House Analysis

The Sunrise Beach House located on Sunshine Coast Queensland, is a cross between the "Pavilion Beach-house and an Urban courtyard" style, while also incorporating a mixture of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, to exploit the play between internal and external living feature. The materials used in the development help reflect two separate natures, one of rawness externally and the other of warmth internally.

To gain a better understanding of this House here is a description

"Rather than prestige frontage and pergola clad rear, this house blurs its ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ into a series of walls, apertures and portals. Its edges and openings are every bit as important as the walls, roof and floor. Modern without overt or banal references, the design dances with shadow and light. Wilson displays a sculptor’s eye for material possibilities that brings into alignment elemental building materials of stone, water, timber and glass. It creates a compelling rhythm of opposites: solidity and transparency, light and dark, cool and warm, hard and soft."

Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 26th March 2010.



Information received from:

Viridian Sunrise, 2008, Beach House, Sunshine Coast, http://www.viridianglass.com/Case_Studies/Vision/vision12-2/default.aspx?Case_Id=vision-12 (accessed 26th March 2010)

Australian Institue of Landscape Architects, 2008, Sunrise Beach House http://www.aila.org.au/projects/qld/wilson-sunrise/default.htm, (Assessed 26thnd March 2010)

Australian design review, 2007 Sunrise Beach House, http://www.idea-awards.com.au/round-4/sunrise-beach-house/ (Assessed 26th March 2010)